Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle

The acclaimed writer, preacher, and "hip-hop intellectual" exposes the raw nerve of class and generational warfare in black America with this provocative defense of poor African Americans.

Michael Eric Dyson, named by Ebony as one of the hundred most influential black Americans, is the author of sixteen books, including Holler if You Hear Me, Is Bill Cosby Right? and I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. He is currently University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Preface

xi

Introduction An Afristocrat in Winter

1

(14)

Speaking of Race Or Not

15

(42)

Classrooms and Cell Blocks

57

(46)

What's in a Name (Brand)?

103

(38)

Family Values

141

(40)

Shadow Boxing with a Scapegoat? (or, Do White People Matter?)

181

(58)

Afterword ``Niggas Come in All Colors''

239

(4)

Acknowledgments

243

(2)

Notes

245

(28)

Index

273

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Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

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